Blogs
September 9, 2013Don't say we never spoil you. This week we have a comedy show entirely based around Saved By the Bell, a deaf stand-up set relayed through ASL, and the comic cream of England's Cambridge University swinging through town with deeply intellectual dick jokes. Combine that with our usual selection of ne ... More >>
Blogs
August 26, 2013Labor Day is just a week away. It's your last chance to see comedians work dirtier, push envelopes harder, and tell industrial quantities of Ben Affleck/Batman jokes before "real life" resumes. Here are our picks for the best of the bunch.
See also: Comedian Kurt Braunohler Misses You All the Time, ... More >>
Voice Choices
June 5, 2013Tweet about Rob Delaney’s show at Carolines
Blogs
March 4, 2013Only Nick Kroll's pet surgery faux ad for Comedy Central's "The Kroll Show" has this beat.
Today, ads in the same vein as the one seen on the right will pop up on subways everywhere. Their main theme: 50 percent of teenagers do not really understand the seriousness of pregnancy at such an early age ... More >>
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June 1, 2012Yesterday the Alabama rapper Krispy Kreme—think a 21-year-old Paul Wall lookalike who sounds like a Yelawolf impersonator whose tricks are performing with a mouth full of marbles and rhyming "back" with "back," streamed over a super-slow Internet connection"—released the song "Best Frien ... More >>
Voice Choices
December 28, 2011Charlie Brown predicts the end is near
Voice Choices
December 21, 2011The greatest band of all
time reunites, sort of
Blogs
December 20, 2011*A toast to Marcus Bachmann: "Bottoms up!"
*Lindsay Lohan living behind bars instead of dancing on top of them.
*Mothers who keep tiaras off their toddlers.
Blogs
May 25, 2011Workaholics last week
Last week's episode of Comedy Central's Wednesday-night Workaholics, a first-season show about recent graduates fumbling through a post-college reality as telemarketers, took place at the Gathering of the Juggalos. From the attention to detail, it was clear creators did their ... More >>
News
April 13, 2011The comedian/writer/rapper is on a collision course with stardom
Music
March 30, 2011A big man on campus, with a mainstream profile, but the music is another matter
Voice Choices
November 10, 2010Seven steps to a new, ridiculous you
Theater
September 1, 2010Part One of a two-part article about homosexual identity
Blogs
July 8, 2010We will never own one of these. Whee, the 62nd Annual (Primetime!) Emmys have been announced. There aren't that many surprises: As usual, HBO rocks, as does Mad Men, True Blood, 30 Rock, Glee, Neil Patrick Harris, and Tina Fey. Losties may get another chance to see the objects of their affect ... More >>
Voice Choices
June 15, 2010Comedy actors finally score a film break!
Blogs
May 3, 2010
The NYPD continues to investigate the failed car bomb found in Times Square on Saturday evening. They have released surveillance video of a "person of interest," a white man in his 40s seen near the bomb scene removing his shirt.
Blogs
April 24, 2010​Earlier this week, everyone's favorite eternal teenage antagonists, South Park, spat in the face of Islamic religious law by depicting the Prophet Muhammad... in a bear costume. Comedy Central went weak and censored the episode with bleeps and image blocks after threats from a Muslim group callin ... More >>
Film
April 20, 2010Voice Choices
February 23, 2010Help make this summer awesome
Blogs
February 2, 2010This Thursday February 4 at 7 PM, Melissa Rivers will appear at the Columbus Circle Borders to sign copies of her book Red Carpet Ready: Secrets For Making The Most of Any Moment You're in the Spotlight.
And Melissa should know, seeing as she's worked both sides of the carpet.
Besides, the ... More >>
Voice Choices
January 19, 2010Jeffrey Ross shows off the art of the insult
Voice Choices
October 27, 2009Everyone say, 'Raaaaaaaandy!'
Voice Choices
October 6, 2009Catch an old-time radio show with Tunde Adebimpe
Blogs
August 4, 2009I went to a party last night at Joan Rivers's three-floor East Side palace (Melissa has the lower floor), which is elegant and gorgeous and currently for sale.
The bash was for Joan's TV Land show, How'd You Get So Rich?, but I also wanted to know about her already legendary Comedy Central r ... More >>
Voice Choices
March 25, 2009Rob Riggle finds humor in the Marines
Blogs
March 18, 2009
I just got a press release saying I'm a celebrity panelist on a live game show, so I guess it's really happening. In fact, I'm pulling together my best Brett Somers wig and Charles Nelson Reilly pants suit (or vice versa) as we speak! Here's the release:
Film
March 18, 2009Voice Choices
March 11, 2009Fill in the blank, please
Voice Choices
December 3, 2008David Alan Grier takes on politics
Voice Choices
November 19, 2008Deadpan stand-up, clean laughs at its best
Voice Choices
October 22, 2008Find refuge in a few hours of certifiably funny stand-up
Voice Choices
September 3, 2008Jon Stewart should really thank her
Blogs
June 20, 2008Voice Choices
June 17, 2008Comedy Central comes to Central Park
Voice Choices
February 26, 2008Stand-up gets an experimental update
Music
October 23, 2007Navigating the great costumes and lousy underage fucks as Halloween descends
News
May 29, 2007Film
February 13, 2007Columns
January 24, 2006Columns
February 22, 2005Blogs
October 27, 2004Art
October 19, 2004NYC Life
October 12, 2004Moby, Jay McInerney sold to the highest bidder; Interpol go undercover
News
August 10, 2004NYC Life
November 11, 2003Arab comedians ask: Hey, does my bomb look big in this?
NYC Life
April 29, 2003Columns
October 22, 2002Columns
January 30, 2001Film
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